Nerd BFCM stats: Shopify’s egress processed 145 billion requests on Friday. App servers handled peak of ~60 million requests per minute. Increase of 38%. Total GMV was $4.1b, up by 22% from last year. But Rails doesn't scale so what are we even doing 🤷♂️
@tobi Rails continue to be strong as usual. Why twitter swapped from Rails to Java? Was it Rails doesn't scale!!!
@tobi So much for the consumer being tapped out… Also ⭐️for Rails
@tobi @longtilwrong really cursing @bradleycharna for never letting me touch RoR !
@tobi Does anybody claim Ruby doesn't scale? The claim is that ruby isn't fast, handling 1.6M requests per second doesn't mean "fast" it means "I can replicate my code on hundreds/thousands of machines". e.g. rwasa is fast because it could ostensibly handle that on a single machine.